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In this interview, Dan Fernandez & Jacqueline Russell discuss the new site and their vision for enabling absolutely anyone to learn about software development (yes, the day when your Mom can post embarrassing home videos and complain via blog entries about
how infrequently you call on the family web site is not far off)!

We do have native C++ in our plans for the future, but no set date just yet. At worst, it will be this summer.

The BDLC won't be the place for all content/tutorials as it's really about the fundamentals. Things like DirectX or XNA will likely live on Coding4Fun, our home for fun technology

We we do have a number of article on Coding4Fun using managed DirectX and are looking to add some on native DirectX, the biggest challenge we have is actually finding native C++ writers that are good, interested, available, and affordable. If you have suggestions,
let me know. In the meantime, we're actually going to re-post, with permission, some of our favorite C++ articles on Coding4Fun.

They made some excellent videos about all kinds of subjects and they are really good at explaining stuff to beginners. Epic Games partnered with them to create a big set of videos about creating levels in Unreal Tournament, programming in UnrealScript and modeling
in Maya.They also made a serie about C++ but not all the videos are available for free.

As I recall I actually met Dan once when he came to Dallas with Eric Gunnerson several years ago to get input from the developers in the Dallas C# Special Interest Group about what they would like to see in the next version of C# (2.0).

So, at this point in my life I'd probably call myself a "recreational developer" (is that like a recreational smoker...? I only code at parties Actually I don't, but I do only do dev work for fun these days (random websites & desktop apps for friends/family).
In a previous lifetime, I worked as a dev/consultant for Avanade. Right now I'm working to teach my husband VB. He's an advertising guy - totally non-technical, so if he can create a data driven WinForms app, then
anyone can!